Commit ded5e5ed authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

Update call_rcu() usage, add synchronize_rcu()

Reported-by: default avatarKyle Hubert <khubert@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
parent 65e423f8
......@@ -1645,7 +1645,9 @@ the amount of locking which needs to be done.
all the readers who were traversing the list when we deleted the
element are finished. We use <function>call_rcu()</function> to
register a callback which will actually destroy the object once
the readers are finished.
all pre-existing readers are finished. Alternatively,
<function>synchronize_rcu()</function> may be used to block until
all pre-existing are finished.
</para>
<para>
But how does Read Copy Update know when the readers are
......@@ -1714,7 +1716,7 @@ the amount of locking which needs to be done.
- object_put(obj);
+ list_del_rcu(&amp;obj-&gt;list);
cache_num--;
+ call_rcu(&amp;obj-&gt;rcu, cache_delete_rcu, obj);
+ call_rcu(&amp;obj-&gt;rcu, cache_delete_rcu);
}
/* Must be holding cache_lock */
......
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